Beautiful morning by Stuart Yeates
This morning while talking to Niall Sclater (Director of the Open University’s VLE Programme) at moodlemoot about barriers to migrating the last of the Open University’s paper courses to electronic courses via moodle, he pointed me to a great pilot underway in some of the roughest prisons in London.
The POLARIS project trial is rolling out access to educational websites into a number of London prisons, including the Wormwood Scrubs and Bellmarsh. Apparently Bellmarsh with it’s population of very high security inmates is less of a problem than some of the others which have a much higher rates of turnover.
The rolling out of access into such places puts a whole new emphasis on the security of the applications used in educational institutions. It’s worth noting that the OU (for whom prisoners represent a small but significant number of students) has just spent a great deal of time and effort rewriting the roles and security in Moodle.
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